CVE-2025-43929

Name
CVE-2025-43929
Description
open_actions.py in kitty before 0.41.0 does not ask for user confirmation before running a local executable file that may have been linked from an untrusted document (e.g., a document opened in KDE ghostwriter).
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/ce5cfdd9caf44c538af800a07162e1f49bd53c35
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/compare/v0.40.1...v0.41.0
https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/#links
https://hitman.services/cve-2025-43929/
https://github.com/0xBenCantCode/CVE-2025-43929

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
kitty >= 0 < 0.41.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
kitty edge-community 0.40.0-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.39.1-r2 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.39.1-r1 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.39.1-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.38.0-r1 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.38.0-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty edge-community 0.37.0-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
kitty 3.22-community 0.37.0-r5 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable